Houaphan

Daylight

Xam Nua, 2026-09-20Sunrise 5:52 AM · sunset 6:02 PM12h 10m of daylightWaxing gibbous, 65% lit

Computed at Xam Nua, the most populous listed place in this region.

World Heritage

Heritage sites shown here are those a source places in this region. A site that spans several regions is listed in each one it crosses. Some of this country's sites appear on no region page at all: the source records no containing region for them, so we would have to guess. They are all on the country page. Go to the country page.

Weather

Conditions for this region were not fetched. This is not a gap in the forecast and not a failure at the source — we have not asked for it. The country's conditions are on the country page. Go to the country page.

Emergency numbers

Shown for the country. This is a national standard and does not change between regions.

Plugs, voltage and domains

Shown for the country. This is a national standard and does not change between regions.

Plug types

Type A (NEMA 1-15), Type B (NEMA 5-15), Type C (Europlug), Type E, Type F (Schuko)cited · letters are the IEC classification

Official website

We searched and could not establish one either way — which is not the same as there being none. Searched, not established. The widely repeated national-portal address `laopdr.gov.la/ePortal/` appears only inside a Library of Congress web-archive CATALOGUE RECORD (lcwaN0006116, a 2011 capture) — a third party's note ABOUT a URL, restated as the URL. The live government-namespace links directory at bol.gov.la lists ministries but no national portal. The .gov.la namespace is active for individual bodies. Recorded 2026-08-07.Not the government’s: laopdr.gov.la — Archive-only: the string exists in a Library of Congress catalogue record from 2011, not on the live namespace.

Tourism board

tourismlaos.org ↗Not a government portal.

What is not on this page

These sections are absent rather than shown empty, and the reasons are not the same. 0 of 3 are absent because of someone else's terms; 1 because of a limit of ours; 2 because the thing itself does not exist at this level. Every licence below has now been read — none of these is waiting on someone to go and look.

• Statistics

  The World Bank publishes these figures for the country as a whole. There is no regional figure to fetch — not one we are missing, one that does not exist — so rather than divide a national number and present the arithmetic as a measurement, this section stays on the country page, where the figure is true.

• Capital

  A region does not have a capital. This is not a gap in what we hold or in what anyone publishes: there is no fact of this kind at this level for any source to have. The country's capital is on the country page, where it belongs.

• Outline map

  The boundary of this region exists and is published. Ours is the limit: the outline file we vendored is ne_10m_admin_0_countries, which carries countries and nothing inside them. Nobody withheld this from us and no licence is in question — we have not built it yet.